When we say 'the money should follow the child' we should be careful about the money following the child into a huckster market where vendors are suspicious, the products are subpar, parents get shortchanged, and the public gets over-charged.

Fund education, not crooks.…

Wentzville schools superintendent leaves after less than two years stltoday.com/news/local/edu… via St. Louis Post-Dispatch Blythe Bernhard

I've been waiting 29 years to tell this story about OJ and his days at USC. Now that he's dead (may he burn in hell) I have a story that I signed an NDA for that is no longer valid. I was a junior at USC working in Topping Student Center on campus in 1995. I was an administrative…

Come on, you know better. It’s a court-ordered desegregation settlement, and it’s over: choicecorp.org

The inability of the right to get their base out for the MO Muni elections demonstrates weakness, lack of organization, and poor leadership. A massive effort must occur or public school progressive indoctrination centers will change politics by 2034.

Kirkwood schools superintendent David Ulrich to retire in 2025 after five years in the role stltoday.com/news/local/edu… via St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Several Southlake Families-inspired political action committees (Francis Howell Families PAC, etc) were launched in recent years to take over school boards in the suburbs around St. Louis.

All of their candidates lost this week. advocate.com/politics/schoo… h/t Buttered Jorts (fka kelly jensen) 🐱🐰

I tripped on a chair, but here’s a clip of the joy after Steven Blair and Carolie Owens won seats on the Francis Howell SB tonight. They’re the first candidates who weren’t supported by a conservative PAC to win in two years. “I believe hope and love won tonight,” Owens said.

A clean sweep for St. Charles County Families for Public Schools

Conservative candidates defeated across the St. Louis region in sweeping rebuke of right-wing efforts to stack school boards: stltoday.com/news/local/gov…

Love this listing in Grantwood Village, Benjamin Scherliss did you do this? 😆💗 zillow.com/homedetails/74…

Hearing that large %s of Indiana kids 'can't read' because they scored below proficient on a standardized test is a bit like saying a college basketball player 'can't shoot a basket' because their field goal percentage is below 60%.

BREAKING: St. Louis University president to step down after decade-plus at the helm stltoday.com/news/local/edu… via St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Fontbonne said in November it had to cut some degree programs to be sustainable

But weeks later, it quietly began negotiations with Wash U to sell its campus.

Now hundreds of students are left to figure out their futures

✍️ me & Blythe Bernhard

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Your Sunday A1 led by an all-women reporting crew steph kukuljan Michele Munz Colleen Schrappen and me, topped off with a brilliant snap by the great Robert Cohen! St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Health journalists: Lately, photojournalists and I have experienced concerning actions by hospital PR folks while escorting us in hospital facilities. Would like to know what others are experiencing. Mine include:

Voucher, charter school expansion advances in Missouri Senate stltoday.com/news/local/gov… via St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The vouchers technically cover educational expenses but nearly all the funds have gone to private school tuition because public school students are ineligible.

Missouri Senate begins debate on vouchers, charter school expansion Jack Suntrup stltoday.com/news/local/edu… via St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Fontbonne has 16 NCAA D-III men's and women's sports and hundreds of athletes who will be looking for new schools.

Fontbonne University in Clayton to shut down in 2025 amid financial turmoil, layoffs and dwindling enrollment. Wash U will buy the campus, as expected. With steph kukuljan stltoday.com/news/local/edu… via St. Louis Post-Dispatch